Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.

The dignity of history.

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.